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'Moscow Times' features St. Olaf class

By David Gonnerman '90
January 19, 2010
St. Olaf Theater in Russia students meet Russian musician and actress Oksana Mysina (center, in red tie).

This month 717 St. Olaf students are studying off campus, including 600 in international programs ranging across the globe -- from studying Spanish in Ecuador to mathematics in Budapest to the St. Olaf Band touring Japan.

Associate Professor of Russian Marc Robinson currently is leading 18 students in the Theater in Russia class. "Over the last few years, this intrepid educator has put together groups of students and brought them to Russia for a month of intensive study," writes theater critic John Freedman in The Moscow Times. "It’s no walk in the park. They have class every day, they have meetings almost every day with actors, writers and diplomats, and almost every evening they attend the theater."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.